"Are You Steaming?"

Freddy Deeb raised to 15,000 from under the gun plus one, only to have Noah Schwartz three-bet to 41,000 on his direct left. The action folded back to Deeb, winner of the 2007 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship, who called.

The dealer fanned , Deeb quickly checked, and Schwartz continued for 34,000. Deeb sat quietly, riffling chips with both hands, then called.

The turn was the , Deeb checked again, and Schwartz began assembling chips. Schwartz grabbed a yellow T25,000 chip, added a few blue T5,000 chips, and a few red T1,000 chips, firing 58,000. Deeb called.

The completed the board, and Deeb checked once more.

"All in," Schwartz said so quietly that nobody even knew that he acted before the red all-in triangle plopped down in front of him.

"All in he said?" Deeb asked the dealer, who nodded. "Can I have a count?"

Schwartz clearly had Deeb covered, but nonetheless the dealer counted down his 266,000-chip stack. Deeb, who was sitting with 208,000, started questioning Schwartz?

"Steaming?" he asked. "Are you steaming? Do you have a big hand? I think that you're steaming."

Schwartz remained silent. Still.

"I don't have much," Deeb said, flashing the before folding. "But I wanted to call you."